Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emmeline Pankhurst

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

Eric Schmidt

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

Erik Erikson

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

Jay Leno

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh... it's as simple as that.

Marianne Williamson

The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.

Bhagat Singh

Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.

Khalil Gibran

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

Tim Ryan

There are a lot of problems here that we cannot fix. There are some problems that you hope, you say your prayers at night that the problems get fixed.

Chief Seattle

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

Charlotte Bronte

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Henry Winkler

You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.

Hillary Clinton

If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

Agnes Repplier

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

David Lange

This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.

Doris Lessing

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Some people make movies for money or glory and will take any subject people offer them. But I cannot do that. I need to feel the story and make it mine.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

Hugh Laurie

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

Elaine Pagels

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

Tim Schafer

I've always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and now games.

Sydney Smith

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Winston Churchill

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

E. Stanley Jones

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.

Without this program, we cannot say we have a national program. We definitely are fighting to stay on the very top and be on the podium. The competition is getting tougher ... but we feel like our system worked very well.

Without this database, NAIS goals cannot be met.

Without the resources of the mainland, Taiwan cannot go far. Let us work together for prosperity for the whole nation and let us join forces ... to push forward the economic miracle of the Chinese nation.

Sathya Baba

WITHOUT the flowers, the plant yields no fruit. Without the emerging fruit, ripeness cannot happen.

Yet he had been there longer and survived more turbulent times in this region perhaps is something that hurts him and perhaps something he cannot remedy in the remaining time and he's way past his sell-by-date.

P. J. O'Rourke

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

Chiang Kai-shek

Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it.

David Duchovny

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.